How the Tea Party Utilized Digital Media to Gain Power
This piece, which I wanted to call “The Digitally Driven Rise of the Tea Party,” was originally about how the right was using new media to oppose climate protection regulations. The idea for the piece...
View ArticleA Rally Without Reason
In case it’s not clear in my review of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, I did enjoy it. The event’s crowd control was nonexistent and the AV was inadequate, so my group opted to watch it from...
View ArticleLive 2010 Election Day Chat on Social Media + Politics
This was the first live chat I’ve helped plan and participated in. Although I got bumped from my afternoon slot to the end of the night by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, I did succeed in getting him...
View ArticleCan AOL, MySpace, Digg rebound?
Below are the stories I covered for this bi-weekly edition of the OPA intelligence report. Follow the links to read individual stories or click here for full coverage of the top online media news. Any...
View ArticleFacebook vs. Google in messaging, data-sharing war
Below are the stories I covered for this bi-weekly edition of the OPA intelligence report. Follow the links to read individual stories or click here for full coverage of the top online media news. Any...
View ArticleHow the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With — or Without — China
This, my first post on COP16, is also probably the first hopeful piece I’ve written about the climate negotiations. The next two weeks will tell if that optimism is well founded. Yesterday some 15,000...
View ArticleGroupon spurns $6 billion offer from Google
Below are the stories I covered for this bi-weekly edition of the OPA intelligence report. Follow the links to read individual stories or click here for full coverage of the top online media news. Any...
View ArticleCancun Has More At Stake Than Just Prestige
This short, colorful dispatch — my first filed from Mexico — is copied in full below along with a photo I took from the plane that illustrates Cancun’s challenge. Click here to see the original UN...
View ArticleThe Growing Role of Corporations in the Climate Negotiations
This piece, my first to lead TNR.com, was given three different titles by the editors there — none of which I particularly liked. They were: In Cancún, Corporations Are Taking Over The U.N. Climate...
View ArticleCancun Conference a Success In Spite of Oil Company Efforts
This was my third and final dispatch from the climate conference. It follows up on a piece written the day before for TNR. A colleague forwarded along evidence that supported my central thesis:...
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